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🗓️ 26 April 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss characters with secrets, diverse Westerns, weird fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Bruno Johnson Series and Bas Bleu. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed Bonds of Justice by Nalini Singh Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice by Willie Parker Oliver Sacks The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells Binti by Nnedi Okorafor The Girl with All the Gifts by MR Carey The Themis files by Sylvain Neuvel No Good Deed by Kara Connolly An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard (trigger warning: violence against women) The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior by Tepilit Ole Saitoti Half an Inch of Water by Percival Everett River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey IQ by Joe Ide The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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New customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Accardo.com. This is the Get Booked Podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations. This is episode 129, and we are recording on April 24th. I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we're coming to you from Book Riot. Tuesday. Hey! I am back from vacation. We ate all of the delicious food. I ate so, oh my gosh, y'all. I went to New York for a week with my parents to see Hamilton. My mother finally got tickets in the lottery. And it was amazing, of course. But it somehow turned into like an eating tour of the city, which is great. And yeah, I had some amazing chicken. I went to a, what is,

0:55.1

Red Rooster, right? In Harlem. Yeah, yeah. Which is Marcus Samuelson's restaurant. And I ordered

1:00.3

what on the menu was called a yard bird, which I thought would be, you know, like just pieces of

1:05.0

fried chicken. But it's like a chicken, like a bird arrived on my plate. and it was fried and delicious, but it was so much

1:13.2

food. And yes, and that was my vacation. Pain and Hamilton. The best vacation. So what are you

1:19.8

reading? I did so much assigned reading in the last two weeks that I'm like letting myself

1:25.4

fall down a paranormal romance rabbit hole right now.

1:29.4

So I'm reading, I'm catching up with the Nalini Singh Sychangling series because there's a new

1:34.5

book coming out soon and I want like, I'm determined to like be caught up with all like,

1:38.8

what, 15 or 16 of them by the time it comes out. I know there's so many. So I'm on like number nine.

1:44.8

So I'm like, I'm more than halfway there. But yes. I know there's so many. So I'm on like number nine. So I'm like,

1:51.9

I'm more than halfway there. But yes, I just finished the Bonds of Justice, which is which is one about an actual like human hero. Usually they're like, you know, wear jaguars or wolves or whatever. But

1:57.6

bonds of justice is about a human and then a sigh who has like special powers and they have to solve a crime and also fall in love with each other and all of the world building is still there and I just love the series so much.

2:09.9

What are you reading?

2:11.1

I just started Life's Work, a moral argument for choice by Willie Parker, which is a memoir slash research nonfiction,

2:20.9

like narrative nonfiction book by Willie Parker, as I said, who is an abortion provider in the

2:26.5

deep south. He's one of the very few doctors in Mississippi and Alabama who travels to the

2:32.4

very few clinics that are left providing abortion services to women.

2:36.6

He's also a practicing Christian and was raised in an evangelical fundamentalist household.

2:42.3

And he's black, and he was very opposed to abortion until he read an interpretation of the Good

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